Thanks @bubke. Your post was awesome. I wasn't going to post this, but then changed my mind after reading your story. Yes, I think spiritual experiences can and do happen all the time in all sorts of places and circumstances. Sometimes a subtle feeling of oneness and being connected to something bigger and deeper. .. Sometimes massive and life changing, like the one you described, when the whole fabric of reality is torn apart.
Yes, 27 is a very significant age. I think it has a lot to do with the Saturn return. Saturn has an orbit of 29.5 years, and during the time it returns toward where it was when we were born, can be a period of big changes and upheaval.